Yoab Vera | Interview

On the occasion of our exhibition Yoab Vera: Reminiscence — Contigo Aprendí (July 10-August 22, 2024), we spoke with the Mexico City and Istanbul-based artist about his work.  Yoab Vera employs the motif of a sea horizon as a guiding structural event for contemplation. Using oil-stick, oil, and concrete, Vera integrates architecture, spirituality, and neuroaesthetics in what he terms “haptic contemplative painting.” Vera distills the complexity of passing time into the simple truth of the rise and fall of the sun, mindfully exploring reality through the present moment, the psychological components of memory, and the changing conditions of light.

Installation view of Ted Gahl, Dustin Hodges, Gabriel Mills, Anna Ting Möller, Soumya Netrabile, Kaifan Wang (January 17-February 21, 2024) at Alexander Berggruen, NY.

Temporalities of Variation: On Ted Gahl, Dustin Hodges, Gabriel Mills, Anna Ting Möller, Soumya Netrabile, Kaifan Wang

On the occasion of our exhibition Ted Gahl, Dustin Hodges, Gabriel Mills, Anna Ting Möller, Soumya Netrabile, Kaifan Wang (January 17-February 21, 2024), curator and writer Yindi Chen contemplates the universal search to contend with time across the artists’ paintings and sculptures.

Quiet Space: An Interview Between Freya Douglas-Morris and Matt Price

On the occasion of our exhibition Freya Douglas-Morris: This star I give to you (October 18-November 18, 2023), we are pleased to share an edited transcript of a conversation between Freya Douglas-Morris and publisher and writer Matt Price, which took place at Freya’s studio in London Fields, East London, in August 2023. The full transcript can be found in Douglas-Morris’s publication This star I give to you, published by Hurtwood Press in association with Alexander Berggruen.

Freya Douglas-Morris, 2023. Photo Daniel Greer
Installation view of Hulda Guzmán: They come from water (May 24-July 5, 2023) at Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Dario Lasagni

Hulda Guzmán: They come from water

On the occasion of Alexander Berggruen’s exhibition Hulda Guzmán: They come from water (May 24-July 5, 2023), we are delighted to share a new editorial feature by artist and critic Andrew Woolbright. As Woolbright considers the “politics of water” at play in Guzmán’s paintings, he finds expressions of love, trust, and hope.

Installation view of Sholto Blissett: Rubicon (January 25-February 22, 2023) at Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Dario Lasagni

Viewing the Rubicon

On the occasion of Alexander Berggruen’s exhibition Sholto Blissett: Rubicon (January 25-February 22, 2023), we are delighted to share a new editorial feature by Flora Blissett, Sholto’s sister. Flora explores Sholto’s work through an intimate lens, revealing how his interests appear in his paintings and exploring the work’s underlying metaphorical suggestions.

Installation view of Gabriel Mills: Butterfly March (October 19-November 19, 2022) at Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Dario Lasagni

Transformation, Autonomy, Abstraction: Gabriel Mills’s Butterfly March

On the occasion of Alexander Berggruen’s exhibition Gabriel Mills: Butterfly March (October 19-November 19, 2022), we are delighted to share a new editorial feature by Paul D’Agostino, PhD, an artist, writer, curator, and translator. D’Agostino delves into the range of painterly approaches Mills employs to achieve transcendence through his artistic agency of metaphorical metamorphoses.

Yuri Yuan Discusses Her Solo Show Dark Dreams

We’re pleased to share text by Yuri Yuan in which she offers insight into the narrative, influences, and symbolism in her works included in her solo show Yuri Yuan: Dark Dreams (September 7-October 12, 2022).

Installation view of "Yuri Yuan: Dark Dreams" (September 7-October 12, 2022) at Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Philipp Hoffmann

The Natural World

On the occasion of Alexander Berggruen’s two-part exhibition The Natural World, we are delighted to share a new editorial feature in which Kirsten Cave connects the works in both exhibitions and discusses the emergent themes. Driven by statements from the artists about their work, Cave acknowledges the historical condition of climate change and explores how “attitudes and approaches to The Natural World range from studies of subject matter, line, color, and form, to meditations on symbolism, history, and projection.”

Installation view of The Natural World: Part II (March 9-April 13, 2022), Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Dario Lasagni

Anna Kunz: With Rays

We are pleased to share with you a new essay, “Anna Kunz: With Rays,” written by Nell Andrew. Following the artist’s gesture and her inspirations from modernism, Andrew dives into the life Kunz imbues into her paintings via color.

This essay was published on the occasion of the exhibition Anna Kunz: With Rays (October 20-November 20, 2021) at Alexander Berggruen, NY.

Installation view of Anna Kunz: With Rays (October 20-November 20, 2021) at Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Dario Lasagni
Emma Webster A Setting Scene, 2021 oil on canvas 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm.)

“You Cannot Stand in the Middle of This” | Chris Rurik

Narration of the catalogue essay “You Cannot Stand in the Middle of This” by Chris Rurik for the exhibition Emma Webster: Green Iscariot is available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

Essay and narration by Chris Rurik. Sound by Jonathan Apgar.

Angie Jennings: Guides from the night fields | Mini Interview

Angie Jennings explores the limits and structures of our visible spectrums in relation to identity and the unknown through her emanant drawings on black paper and her sculptures. On the occasion of our exhibition Angie Jennings: Guides from the night fields (July 21–August 31, 2021), we spoke with the artist about her work.

Installation view of Angie Jennings: Guides from the night fields (July 21–August 31, 2021) at Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Bryan Toro
Installation view of Yuri Yuan: River Flows in You (July 21–August 31, 2021) at Alexander Berggruen, NY.

Yuri Yuan: River Flows in You | Mini Interview

Yuri Yuan’s paintings capture fleeting illuminations of loneliness, rendered in enigmatic abstracted elements and environments of disconnect. On the occasion of our exhibition Yuri Yuan: River Flows in You (July 21–August 31, 2021), we spoke with New York-based artist Yuri Yuan about her work.

Shapes (April 21-May 27, 2021) at Alexander Berggruen, New York

Shapes | Mini Interviews

On the occasion of our exhibition Shapes (April 21-May 27, 2021), we spoke with artists Rana Begum, Ethan Cook, Marie Hazard, Sheree Hovsepian, Paul Kremer, Anna Kunz, and Joel Shapiro about their work.

Brittney Leeanne Williams: Black Women at/in the Bend

We are pleased to share with you a new essay, “Brittney Leeanne Williams: Black Women at/in the Bend,” written by New York-based curator, producer, and multidisciplinary artist Niama Safia Sandy. Through historical, societal, and spiritual lenses, Sandy explores Williams’s portrayal of the Black female experience and the portals Williams’s paintings open for Black women.

This essay was published on the occasion of Brittney Leeanne Williams: The Arch Is a Portal Is a Belly Is a Back (March 5-April 14, 2021) at Alexander Berggruen, NY.

Danny Fox Langley in the Garden, 2020 acrylic on canvas 60 x 72 in. (152.4 x 182.9 cm.)

Danny Fox: Feedback Loop of Visual Reference

We are pleased to share with you a new essay, “Danny Fox: Feedback Loop of Visual Reference,” written by Kirsten Cave. This essay explores Fox’s collaboration with photographer Kingsley Ifill, the basis for the paintings included in Danny Fox: The Sweet and Burning Hills (Alexander Berggruen, New York, January 12-February 26, 2021).

From the first group of related photographs and drawings in the 19th century to early pornographic postcards to contemporary pop culture, Fox’s new body of work exists in conversation with the rich history of photography’s influence on drawing and painting.

Virtual Panel with Minku Kim and Ted Gahl

Virtual Panel with Minku Kim and Ted Gahl at Alexander Berggruen

We are pleased to share with you a recording of the Virtual Panel we held on Thursday, October 1 with the artists in our two concurrent exhibitions Minku Kim: Foundation and Ted Gahl: Paintings (September 1-October 14, 2020), moderated by independent curator Francesca Altamura.

Emma Webster Fawn, 2020 oil on linen 96 x 78 in. (245 x 200 cm.)

Animal Kingdom – Mini Interviews

Alexander Berggruen is pleased to share mini interviews with select artists included in our exhibition Animal Kingdom (June 26-August 29, 2020).

Alexander Berggruen Quarters Install

Quarters: Anne Buckwalter, Dustin Hodges, JJ Manford, Brittney Leeanne Williams – Small-Format Interviews

Alexander Berggruen conducted Small-Format Interviews with each of the artists in our exhibition Quarters: Anne Buckwalter, Dustin Hodges, JJ Manford, Brittney Leeanne Williams (March 18-May 27, 2020).

Still of Quarters: Anne Buckwatler, Dustin Hodges, JJ Manford, Brittney Leeanne Williams Panel

Quarters: Anne Buckwalter, Dustin Hodges, JJ Manford, Brittney Leeanne Williams – Live Virtual Panel

On Saturday, May 2, at 5 pm Eastern, Alexander Berggruen hosted a Live Virtual Panel with the artists in our past exhibition, Quarters: Anne Buckwalter, Dustin Hodges, JJ Manford, Brittney Leeanne Williams, moderated by art writer and curator Osman Can Yerebakan.

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